Traffic Impact Analysis Of Xiamen Airport Terminal Area

In recent years, as the fast development of civil aviation of China, the trend of urbanization in airport area, and the increase of the number of motor vehicles, the airport's landside ground transportation system is facing increasing pressure. Many airports begin a new or modified transport facilities to ease the growing contradiction between the transport supply and demand issues, this paper takes the example of Xiamen Airport to illustrate related issues.As one of the five country's first open special economic zones, Xiamen has achieved rapid economic development because of its superior economic position and the port location. Xiamen International Airport is currently the only airport in Xiamen, with the development of Xiamen's economy its passenger throughput is also growing rapidly, but the airport terminal area is facing traffic tremendous challenge because of the rapid growth of traffic demand.In order to meet the transport needs of the new situation, the underground parking, low-cost aviation building and commercial building projects are decided to build. To ensure the terminal area traffic orderly after the projects are completed and connect smoothly with the surrounding traffic, it is necessary to carry out traffic impact analysis for the terminal area.This paper first describes the basic overview of the three construction projects, indicates the land use of the terminal's surrounding areas, analyzes the traffic network structure and their organizations through traffic surveys, and finds many problems exist in the area status quo. Then, looking at the economic development of Xiamen to predict its short and long term trend of economic development, respectively using the transport planning classic four-stage to predict the short and long term road load of passenger and goods, analyzes the factors which affect the airport's parking needs, and using the D equivalency method to predict the amount needs of short and long term parking. According to the amount of traffic demand forecasting, assesses the the traffic impact of the construction projects, indicates the road network planning and its transportation organizations of short and long term, proposes the instructive traffic organization optimization methods and principles, proposes the specific traffic organization plan for terminal area, and shows the related improvement measures from the road traffic, traffic air-station facilities, traffic improvement planning control focuses.